Tool for securing drawer-stops to furniture.



V. C. LUPPERT.

TOOL FOR SEGURING DRAWER STOPS T0 FURNITURE.

APPLIGATION FILED APR.15, 1913.

1,094,079. Patented Apr. 21, 1914.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH Co., WASHING-row, D. c.

VALENTINE C. LUPPERT, 0F WILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA.

TOOL FOR SECURING DRAWER-STOPS v'10 FURNITURE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 21, 1914.

Application led April 15, 1913. vSerial No. 761,379.

To ail 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that l, VALENTINE G. LUP- PERT, of Williamsport, in the county of Lycoming and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tools for Securing Drawer-Stops to Furniture; and 1 do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will en-V able others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in tools for securing drawen stops to furniture,-the object of the invention being to provide a manually operable device whereby drawer stops may be quickly and accurately secured to the draw rail or sill of built-up furniture.

A further object is to so construct the device that the depth to which the stops may be driven may be readily regulated.

A further object is to construct the device in such manner as to ut-ilize one of its pivoted members as a magazine for drawer stops; to provide simple andl efficient feeding means, and to render the magazine readily accessible for filling.

)Vith these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts as hereinafter set forth and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a tool embodying my improvements showing the positions ofthe parts when a stop shall have been driven; Fig. 2 is a View partlyin elevat-ion and partly in longitudinal section showing the upper pivoted member or lever in raised position, with the driver in position over a stop to be driven; Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view on the line m-m of Fig. 2, when the plunger has been withdrawn; Fig. 4t is an enlarged partial plan view showing the feeding plunger withdrawn and the magazine cover thrown aside to facilitate the filling of the magazine; Fig. 5 is an enlarged sectional view on the line 'y-z/ of Fig. 2, and Fig. 6 is an enlarged sectional view on the line 2 2 on Fig. 2.

1, 2 represent two pivotally connected members, the lower member 1 being provided with an upturned portion 3 to which the upper or lever member 2 is pivotally y the upturned portion `of the member 1 (as Vmade hollow to form a magazine ,6 for drawer stops 7. At the forward end of the magazine, the member 1 is provided with lugs 8 having grooves 9 in their inner faces to form guides for a Vvertically movable driver 10 which is movable past the forward end of the magazineand the upper end of said driver is bifurcated and embraces the lever 2, to which it is loosely con-l nected by means of a pivot pin 11. The lugs 8 are also made with undercut notches 12 to receive and retain the forward end of a magazine cover 13, the latter being pvotally attached near its other end upon the member 1 of the device. The rearwardly project-ing portion 14- of the cover 13 is provided on its under face with a small protuberance 15 to engage a recess 16 in the upper face of the magazine member 1 to retain said cover normally in position over the magazine.

The drawer stops 7 have a general inverted V-shape, and when in the magazine they straddlev a rod 17 secured at its forward end in the forward end of the magazine,-said rod extending rearwardly through the magazine and having its rear end mounted with- 'in the hollow member 1 rearwardly of the magazine. A plunger or follower 18, mounted within the magazine is freely movable on said rod and is pressed by a spring 19 encircling the rod, to feed the drawer stops forwardly. When the magazine is to be lled with stops, the plunger will be drawn back by the user (said plunger being provided with laterally projecting finger holds 2O for this purpose) and it will be retained in such withdrawn position by means of a spring latch 21 secured under the bottom of the magazine and having a projection passing through a hole in the bottom of the magazine in position to be engaged by the withdrawn plunger. The latch 21 may be provided with a knob 22 to facilitate its withdrawal to release the plunger. After the plunger shall have been drawn back, the magazine cover swung aside, the magazine may be readily filled with drawer stops.

A post 23 depends from the forward por- -tion l of the device, near the forward end of the magazine,-the upper portion of said post having a plain surface and its lower portion threaded, as at 24. At the juncture of the plain and threaded portions, of the post, a collar 25 is rigidly secured to the latter and from this collar a brace 25a projects rearwardly andV upwardly and is secured at its rear end to the bottom of the magazine portion yof the member 1. The collar 26 of a foot piece 27 (the latter preferably having its upper face serrated) is mounted `on the plain portion of the postand rests upon the collar 25. The foot piece -27 is retained in its normal position by means `of a spring-pressed pin 28 engaging in a recess 29 in the post. rThis foot piece 27 may be swung aside (for a purpose hereinafter described), and when thus swung aside, it will be retained in such position by engagement of the pin 28 in a recess 30 in the post. Y

Inthe manufacture of furniture, itis the common practice t0. make the drawer sills or rails of a standard thickness and the distance of the upper faceV of the foot piece 27 from the under face of the magazine member of the tool may be approximately equal to such thickness of the rail, so that the tool may be inserted into the drawer opening and caused to neatly `embrace the rail Vor sill as illustrated in Fig. l. It frequently happens however, that, on account of decorative iinishings for the rail of the bottom drawer, this rail plus its inishings renders more space necessary between the foot and the magazine member of the tool; I therefore provide a supplemental foo-t piece 31 adjustably mounted on the threaded portion 24 yof Vthe post 23. When this foot piece is used, the foot piece 27 will be turned aside.

In order to' insure the proper location of the drawer stop relatively to the front face of the rail, a gage 82 is adjustably secured to the bottom of the magazine member of the device, so as to engage the front face of the rail.

For the purpose of regulating the depth to which the stops are to be driven into the rail, a screw 33 is provided. This screw is Vcarried by the lever member` 2 and adapted to engage the magazine member, said screw being adjustable in said lever and held at any desired adjustment by means of a jam nut 34. If desired a cross bar 35 may be secured to the lower end of the post 23 to form a rest for the tool while the magazine is being filled.

Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is

A tool of the character described, comprising two connected levers, one constituting a magazine having a transverse slot, a post depending from the lever having the magazine, a driver carried by the other lever and movable in the slot in the magazine lever, a stop mounted on the post in such a way that it may be turned laterally out of the path of the driver, and another stop carried and guided in its movements by the post. v

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

VALENTINE C. LUPPERT.

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